Vincentian Priests and Brothers

Mr. Jerzy Karpinski, M.D., Gdansk region surgeon general has informed media on the current state of health of Archbishop Tadeusz Goclowski CM who yesterday, March 7, 2010, was admitted to the Neurology Clinics of Gdansk University Medical Center with suspected stroke. This suspition, said Dr. Karpinski, has not confirmed yet. According to his assessment, patient [...]

Tags: C.M., events, Gdansk, Goclowski, Poland

Polish public TV news channel (TVP Info) has reported in the evening today (2006 GMT) that Archbishop Tadeusz Gocłowski CM, former Archbishop of Gdansk, has suffered a stroke. We have confirmed this information from Superior of Vincentian Parish of Pentecost in Sopot, Fr. Jerzy Berdychowski CM. Bishop’s health is in serious but stable condition. He [...]

Tags: C.M., Gdansk, Poland

It is tradition in the Province of Poland to institute new Lector (Reader) and Acolyte ministers on the first Sunday of Lent. These ministries are elements of formation toward priesthood. Canon Law requires candidates for diaconal ordination to have received and have exercised for an appropriate time the ministries of lector and acolyte and prescribes that [...]

Tags: Bydgoszcz, C.M., events, Krakow, Lent, liturgy, Seminary, Stradom

2010 was proclaimed Chopin Year in Poland to commemorate 200th birthday anniversary of Frederic Chopin, most famous Polish composer and one of the biggest in the world.  He was born on February 22, 1810 (some sources say it was on March 1) in Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw. On eve of the birthday anniversary solemn Thanksgiving [...]

Tags: events, heritage, history, Holy Cross, Poland, Warsaw

…in the presence of all his people” (Psalm 116:14). According to tradition  in the  CM Province of Poland, in the solemnity of Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary our seminarians in various stages of their formation  celebrate either Vocation Day (Internal Seminary) or Good Promise (Bonum Propositum, I Philosophy) or Sacred Vows (III Theology).

Tags: C.M., liturgy, Seminary, Stradom

On the eight day of his visit Superior General visited Daughters of Charity in the Province of Krakow. The visit started in the morning in Provincial House at Warszawska Street in the Kleparz district. In the afternoon he was showed two of works Daughters of Charity run in the Krakow - St. Louise Children’s House [...]

Tags: D.C., Krakow, Poland, Superior General, visits

Second part of the visit to Poland Superior General spent in Krakow and surroundings on private sightseeing of historic places and tourist attractions. In the morning Fr. Greg went to the Museum in former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the late afternoon he stepped underground - touring the salt mine in Wieliczka.

Tags: Krakow, Poland, Stradom, Superior General, visits

Sixth day of Superior’s General visit to Poland was dedicated to Daughters of Charity from Province of Warsaw. Most of the day Fr. Greg spent in the Provincial House at Tamka Street and two different works of the Province - Nursing House for elderly women at Solec Street, Warsaw and Special Education Center and Kindergarten [...]

Tags: D.C., Poland, Superior General, Warsaw

Warsaw was another stage of Superior’s General trip in Poland. At about 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4, our Honored Guest accompanied by the Visitor and the Provincial Secretary arrived to Holy Cross House in Warsaw, the oldest Vincentian community in Poland and one of oldest in the world. Holy Cross Parish in Warsaw was [...]

Tags: C.M., Poland, Superior General, visits, Warsaw

Northern city of Sopot was another stage of Superior’s General tour of Poland. In the evening, November 3, the honorable Guest arrived to the parish of the Pentecost in Sopot, another Vincentian community in the Province. All confrères from the parish, the retreat house in Gdynia and diocesan major seminary welcomed him cordially and had [...]

Tags: C.M., Gdansk, Poland, Sopot, Superior General, visits

Day four of Superior’s General visit in Poland was dedicated to Daughters of Charity from the Province of Chelmno-Poznan in Chelmno, a small town some 30 miles North-East from Bydgoszcz. Fr. Greg spent most of the day in the Provincial House. As we noticed later, it wasn’t easy for him to leave the place where [...]

Tags: C.M., Chelmno, D.C., Poland, Superior General, visits

The Feast of All Souls, November 2, was third day of Father General presence in our community. In the morning our Honorable Guest left Stradom to travel to Vincentian House in Bydgoszcz at St. Vincent de Paul Basilica. The Visitor, Fr. Arkadiusz Zakreta and Provincial Secretary, Fr. Adam Borowski accompanied him. During their trip they [...]

Tags: Bydgoszcz, C.M., Poland, Stradom, Superior General, visits